In the 1970s, the U.S. Air Force seriously explored turning Boeing 747s into airborne aircraft carriers, capable of launching ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 10 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 11.

U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over ...

The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East, a rare and provocative move as the Trump ...

U.S. forces in the region have been building up ahead of a threatened attack on Iran as well as during strikes on the Iran-backed Houthi militia ...

The Pentagon has ordered the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to leave the Indo-Pacific for the Middle East.

This article is the first in a two-part series on “Operation Whale Tail,” the CIA’s ambitious project to reformat a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane for aircraft carrier use. The second article ...

The Pentagon is sending the USS Carl Vinson to the Middle East and extending the deployment of USS Harry S. Truman, which is already there.

This article is the second in a two-part series on “Operation Whale Tail,” the CIA’s ambitious project to reformat a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane for aircraft carrier use. The first article was ...

That takes us back to the aircraft carriers. After all, two Carrier Air Wings (a carrier’s embarked air complement) constitute the minimum deployment structure in U.S. military plans to provide ...

NAPLES, Italy — Navy fighter jets recently intercepted a Russian spy plane flying near an aircraft carrier ordered to the Middle East to support U.S. military strikes against Iranian-backed ...